Exploring the InfraWorks Environment - Autodesk Infraworks and Infraworks 360 Essentials - page 9

expand out to reveal a series of tools, collectively referred to as Intelligent Tools.
The only tools we'll be covering in this topic are found beneath the big orange
circle representing the InfraWorks core features. If you are not entitled to any of
the InfraWorks modules, you will only see this core icon. This big orange circle
is referred to as the InfraWorks Home icon and it will be mentioned by name
many times throughout this topic.
fIgure 1.5 Icons representing major InfraWorks
feature sets
When you click the InfraWorks Home icon it will expand to the right and a
secondary toolbar will appear from beneath it. In this topic we will refer to this
orange toolbar as the InfraWorks toolbar. This toolbar contains four icons, each
of which opens a different vertical toolbar along the left side of the screen. These
four icons and their associated toolbars are:
Intelligent tools settings
You may have noticed a tiny little gear icon to the left of the InfraWorks Home
icon. If you click this icon two settings will be revealed. The first setting (Labels)
controls whether the names of the commands appear beneath the icons on the
toolbars. You can turn this off once you've worked with InfraWorks for a while
and you can identify the tools by their appearance alone. The second setting
(Hiding) when turned on, will shift the toolbar to the left when you're not using
it so that it doesn't obscure your view of the model quite so much.
Manage On the Manage toolbar, many of the tools open panels that are used
to manage the model, the properties of objects, styles, proposals, and others.
These tools are fairly general in nature.
data sources As you'll learn, InfraWorks is great at creating a
model by aggregating different sources of data. This icon opens
the Data Sources panel where you can manage that information.